The Battered child

Duration: 58

Genre: Educational | Journalism | Mental Health

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A documentary study of child abuse. Shows a team of doctors and social workers at the University of Colorado Medical Center working with actual cases in an effort to determine the causes of physical child abuse and the treatment of its emotional effect on children. Suggests that the parent offenders need psychiatric therapy rather than penal action. , Documents a study of child abuse based on the book "The Battered Child" by Drs. C. Henry Kempe and Roy E. Helfer. Shows a team consisting of psychiatrists, pediatricians, and social workers at the University of Colorado Medical Center analyzing the causes of physical child abuse and the treatment of children affected mentally. Argues that the mental illness evidenced by parents who abuse children is as real as the consequent suffering of the children and, therefore, these parents may need psychiatric therapy rather than penal action.

Complete Record: A documentary study of child abuse. Shows a team of doctors and social workers at the University of Colorado Medical Center working with actual cases in an effort to determine the causes of physical child abuse and the treatment of its emotional effect on children. Suggests that the parent offenders need psychiatric therapy rather than penal action. , Documents a study of child abuse based on the book The Battered Child by Drs. C. Henry Kempe and Roy E. Helfer. Shows a team consisting of psychiatrists, pediatricians, and social workers at the University of Colorado Medical Center analyzing the causes of physical child abuse and the treatment of children affected mentally. Argues that the mental illness evidenced by parents who abuse children is as real as the consequent suffering of the children and, therefore, these parents may need psychiatric therapy rather than penal action., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.